On Thu, 6 Jan 2005, Grant Grundler wrote:
> That's a limitation of linux. Linux drivers assume physically > contigous pages are available for anything that crosses > a page boundary. KISS when it works but not robust. yeah, I know, freebsd never had this problem ... > FWIW, I had the impression most arches now can support bigger page sizes. > mips and ia64 implement bigger pages today. I thought ppc, sparc, > i386, and x86-64 could also support pages sizes > 4k but am not really > sure about all those. 386 at least will let you play with 4m and 2m pages. x86-64 IIRC will let you do 2m pages. On the soft tlb machines you can pretty much do what you like on that score. ron _______________________________________________ openib-general mailing list openib-general@openib.org http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general To unsubscribe, please visit http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general
